Scope of the
meeting
Welcome to this workshop to explore the boundaries and puzzles in the field of star formation. We do not anticipate the classical meeting where everybody presents and summarizes the most recent results, but rather we would like to dig deeper and decipher the real problems in the field that still need to be solved.
Star
formation is a topic of active research since the seventies and a lot of
progress has certainly been made since then. Nevertheless, there are
still many conceptual issues and central puzzles that are not solved
yet. These include processes and physics related to the origin of
turbulence in the ISM, the formation, evolution and lifetimes of
molecular clouds in the turbulent environment of galaxies, the
condensation of these clouds into stars, multiple systems and stellar
clusters via gravitational collapse and the energetic processes by which
these stars affect their gaseous environment and by this self-regulate
star formation. With this meeting we want to make an attempt to identify
and clarify some of the most pending questions in the field, and to seek
paths to solve them, from a theoretical as well as observational point
of view.
This requires a new workshop style that is not focused primarily on
presentations of most recent insights and successes but, just on the
opposite, about what you think is fascinating but not understood, why it
is important and (if you have an idea) suggestions of how to solve the
puzzle, maybe in a concerted effort. Your task as participant will be to
suggest such questions and lead a subsequent discussion.
Approach
With
an anticipated 32 participants, there is sufficient room for various
forms of discussions. Every participant has a 20min slot where an
important question or puzzle in the field can be introduced and a
discussion be started. In this 20min slot, a maximum of 10min should be
devoted to introduce the topic/question and/or show some initial
results. The remaining part of the time should be dedicated to
discussion. Furthermore, it is possible to "cumulate" slots. Check
out the list of participants below. If you want to introduce/discuss a
question/puzzle with another participant, two or three slots can be
cumulated to 40min or 60min slots. The share of 50% intro/results and
50% discussion should remain.
These
32 individual and/or cumulated discussions will be on the first two days
(Mon/Tue). Based on the ideas broad up there, the whole Wednesday
morning is open to dive deeper into some of the questions brought up
earlier. Please, check out the skeleton program below.
Every participant is then invited to suggest ideas for those discussion
rounds on Wednesday. These ideas should be sent to the organisers till
Tuesday evening to prepare the discussion session on Wednesday morning.
To
get the initial program ready, we ask every participant to provide us a
title and potential key words for their initial individual or cumulated
contributions. Please
let us know if you want to combine your presentation with others.
Possible keywords (not exhaustive list, more can be added) are provided
at the bottom of the page. These keywords are only meant to help sorting
topics into the final program. Please, sent us that information
latest by Wednesday, July 7, 2021.
We
are looking forward to a lively and exciting meeting!
Program
Sunday,
July 11, 2021:
Afternoon and early evening: Arrival at castle
18:30
Dinner
21:00
Possibility to watch European Championship final
Monday,
July 12, 2021
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Chair:
Andreas Burkert
09:00-09:20
Andreas Burkert & Henrik Beuther: Welcome and Introduction
09:20-10:00 Rolf Kuiper & Henrik Beuther: What are the differences
between high- and low-mass star-formation? (pdf-file)
10:00-10:20 Caroline Gieser: Which form first: high- or low-mass stars?
(pdf-file)
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Joao Alves, Josefa Grossschedl, Laura Posch: The 3D motion
of the local ISM: new window, better puzzles (pdf-file)
11:50-12:10 Sara Rezaei Kh.: How can the 3D shapes of the local
molecular clouds help us better understand star formation? (pdf-file)
12:30-14:30 Lunch break & discussion sub-groups
14:30-14:50
Mario Tafalla: Can molecular clouds be in free fall? (pdf-file)
14:50-15:10 Jonas
Syed: How does the atomic ISM affect molecular cloud formation? (pdf-file)
15:10-15:30
Stefan Heigl: The Puzzle of the Edge Effect - a tale with two ends
(pdf-file)
15:30-15:50
Adam Ginsburg: Cluster formation and fragmentation (CMF, IMF) (link)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Afterwards:
Departure
List
of participants